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> Nothing about the GPL "forces" the infringer to divulge their code -- that's simply one available option. Wrong, as soon as you publish your app publically,
by freetard 17y ago
> Nothing about the GPL "forces" the infringer to divulge their code -- that's simply one available option.
Wrong, as soon as you publish your app publically, you are forced to give the whole source code of that version of the app to anyone who downloaded the binary.
- tspiteri 17y agoNo, as soon as you publish your infringing app, your license to distribute the app is terminated. You are not forced to provide your source code, but you are forbidden from further distribution of the GPL part, even if you then publish your own source code as GPL. If I remember well, in the GPL version 3 there is a mechanism so that if you publish an infringing app but then correct the infringement by publishing the whole source as GPL within a certain number of days, your license to distribute the app is not terminated.
- freetard 17y agoYou're wrong, by using the GPL you agree to abide by it and this means giving the source in case of redistribution of the binary, plain and simple. Many companies have been sued and forced to give the source, look it up.